Following the mega MegaUpload drama, its head Kim Dotcom decided to start its successor, named Mega (with the URL www.me.ga), registered with the internet TLD .ga for the West African nation Gabon. Following Dotcom's announcement and domain name registration, the URL gained large traffic, but ahead of its debut, the URL has been suspended by people behind the TLD, the Gabon Ministry of Telecommunications. Its minister Blaise Louembe said in a statement, that his country "cannot serve as a platform or screen for committing acts aimed at violating copyrights, nor be used by unscrupulous people." Dotcom's attorney told the press that launch of Mega is on-track, but could feature a different URL.

I think the biggest problem is that there aren't many countries who can't be intimidated by the US but are not just as unscrupulous themselves (Russia and China being the obvious examples here). Maybe that country that SlySoft went to would be okay...

Not for long. The US is turning over control to the UN by years end........yeah so Iran and company will now have control over what you see. Have fun!

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Works both ways... Canada, Japan, Spain (anyone else remember the football debacle?), and everyone else would be free from US control. Besides, any country restricting internet doesn't need to do it by TLD control.

I think the biggest problem is that there aren't many countries who can't be intimidated by the US but are not just as unscrupulous themselves (Russia and China being the obvious examples here). Maybe that country that SlySoft went to would be okay...

Works both ways... Canada, Japan, Spain (anyone else remember the football debacle?), and everyone else would be free from US control. Besides, any country restricting internet doesn't need to do it by TLD control.

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Yeah but its China and Russia and two hard core Muslim nations that are demanding it. The US turned it down once. But its back in the works now. If you think the US is bad at censorship.....you aint seen nothing yet.

Yeah but its China and Russia and two hard core Muslim nations that are demanding it. The US turned it down once. But its back in the works now. If you think the US is bad at censorship.....you aint seen nothing yet.

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Doesn't really mean much. The .COM domain getting numerous masters instead of one doesn't change the fact it stopped being a nice TLD a while ago. Sites have been moving from the horrors of .COM to country specific TLDs to protect themselves.

Yeah but its China and Russia and two hard core Muslim nations that are demanding it. The US turned it down once. But its back in the works now. If you think the US is bad at censorship.....you aint seen nothing yet.

Yeah but its China and Russia and two hard core Muslim nations that are demanding it. The US turned it down once. But its back in the works now. If you think the US is bad at censorship.....you aint seen nothing yet.

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I don't see the US giving it up to the UN. We all know how the UN runs things.

what about www.failu.re ... the people of Reunion will take him i bet. of course they would have to go through france first.

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Actually, that'd be great! We'd get a lot more publicity, which would be good since we don't have as many tourists as we'd like to. (Come on, you know you wanna chew on that sugar cane and drink coconut water at the same time!)